Improvement in shoe-shaves



T. HARBINGTDN.

Shoe-Shave.

N0 p59548I Patented Feb. 9, 131m UNITED STATES PATENT CEEIGE.

THEODORE HARRINGTON, OF SOUTHBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS.

vIMPROVEMENT IN SHOE-SHAVES.v

Specication forming part of Letters Patent No. 159,548, dated February 9, 1875; application filed i January 5, 1875.

To all whom 'it may concern Beit known that I, THEoDoEE EARRING- TON, of Southbridge, in the county of Worcester, State of Massachusetts, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Shoe-Shaves, of which the following is a description sufficiently full, clear, and exact to enable any person skilled in the art or science to which my invention appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, forming a part 0f this specication, in which- Figure 1 is an isometrical perspective view of my improved shoe-shave; Fig. 2, a view of the knife; and Fig. 3, avertical lateral section taken on the line :c Fig. 1.

Like letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the different iigures of the drawing.

My invention relates more especially to the formation of the body-of the shave, and to means for securing the knife; land consists in a novel construction and arrangement of the parts, as hereinafter more fully set forth and claimed, by which a simpler, cheaper, and more durable implement of this character is produced than is now in ordinary use.

'In Fig. 1, A is the body or haft and the handles of the shave, and B the knife. The haft and handles are composed of a single piece of metal, centrally slotted longitudinally nearly its entire length', the knife being grasped and held in position between the two yielding sides of the haft so formed by means of the set-screws C C, which also prevent any undue endwise movement of the knife.

It will be readily obvious to all conversant with such matters that an article of this description, which consists of but four pieces, can be easily and cheaply manufactured, and will be far more durable, and less liable to get outof order, than one more intricate in its construction.

I am aware that the metal body or haft of the shave has been slotted to receive the knife, which is secured by screws passing through ears or lugs attached thereto; but this is notA my invention. By this construction the only security given the knife is through the screws acting on the ears of the knife, while, by my invention, the knife is firmly held by the yielding sides of the haft sprung together by the screws. l

- Having thus described my improvement, what I claim is l The shoe-shave described, consisting of the haft and handles A, slotted nearly throughout their entire length, knife B, and set-screws C C, for drawing together the sides of the haft, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

flHEODORE HARRINGTON. Witnesses:

H. E. METcALF, J AMEs METcALE. 

